Former Counsel to VP Pence: Jan 6 Testimony Preview

Greg Jacob, the former counsel to Vice President Pence, will testify to the January 6 Committee later today that Pence “never wavered” from his view that what President Trump and some of Trump’s legal advisers asked him to do on January 6 was flatly unconstitutional.

“I first spoke to Vice President Pence about the Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act in early December 2020. The vice president’s first instinct was that the Framers of our Constitution, who abhorred concentrated power, would never have entrusted any one person with the unilateral authority to alter the outcome of a presidential election — particularly not a person who is on the ticket,” Jacob says in an opening statement obtained by National Review. “The vice president never wavered from that view.”

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Greg Jacob, the former counsel to Vice President Pence, will testify to the January 6 Committee later today that Pence “never wavered” from his view that what President Trump and some of Trump’s legal advisers asked him to do on January 6 was flatly unconstitutional.

“I first spoke to Vice President Pence about the Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act in early December 2020. The vice president’s first instinct was that the Framers of our Constitution, who abhorred concentrated power, would never have entrusted any one person with the unilateral authority to alter the outcome of a presidential election — particularly not a person who is on the ticket,” Jacob says in an opening statement obtained by National Review. “The vice president never wavered from that view.”